From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:26:41 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Message-ID: Hi, The Hacker's Dictionary says that daemons were so named in CTSS. I'm guessing then that Ken Thompson brought them into Unix? I've noticed that more recent implementations of init have shunned the traditional terminology in favor of the more prosaic word "services". For example, Solaris now has SMF, the Service Management Facility, and systemd, the linux replacement for init, has services as well. It makes me a little sad, because it feels like some of the imaginativeness, fancifulness, and playfulness that imbue the Unix spirit are being lost. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: